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| Wisconsin State Journal 18 April 1945 page 8 |
They met by chance at a party celebrating the birthday of one of her classmates...she was still in high school. He, sent to Madison by the Navy for radio training, was invited by one of his classmates and later stated he never would have gone if he had known it was a dance! But, dance or no, he met "the prettiest woman he had ever seen" (who for him, 69 years later, she still was).
Like other couples engaged in long-distance romances during World War II, they sent letters and photos and hoped for a safe return home so they could start their lives together. Looking through the photos from those years, gosh, they were young and innocent. She was barely out of high school, he was a farmboy from the Bootheel of Missouri scratching out foxholes in the coral rock of Peleliu and Bouganville in the South Pacific. But when you look at the photos, you see such joy and love and sweetness.
Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad.
